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“... by seeming to assume that this knowledge will be common to all cultivated people. In the case of Arno Schmidt I am tempted towards no such subterfuges, partly because my ignorance of the man and his work, prior to my reading of Evening Edged in Gold, was total, partly because I imagine numerous other potential British readers will be in a similar ...”

“... mind that I’m no sort of collector, I had to have a copy of my own. I’d heard of the author, Arno Schmidt, from a German-reading friend, as a sort of lost modernist, born 1914, died 1979, not much read in his home country even in his lifetime, out of fashion and (it was almost a boast) strongly resistant to translation. Yet here were nearly 1500 ...”

“... who died two years ago, wrote too many poems. She was careless about her output, sending Michael Schmidt, her editor at Carcanet, ‘sacks’ of manuscript work to sift through and make into a collection. Even he seems occasionally to have lost track. His sympathetic and shrewd introduction records that her own favourite among her poems was ...”

“... English as in German.) Important people were drawn to him; this was not a one-way street. Helmut Schmidt, for instance, wanted someone to write about him; Stern was looking for a new project. ‘Ten days in Schmidt’s archives were wondrous’; Helmut and Mrs Schmidt were ‘wonderfully ...”